Contrail Cloud Platform

Contrail Cloud Platform is an integrated turnkey cloud management platform that is hardened from open source technologies including OpenStack, OpenContrail, Ceph, and Puppet. It is a foundational element of Juniper’s open cloud networking and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions.

Contrail Cloud Platform automates the orchestration of compute, storage, and networking resources to create and scale open, intelligent, and reliable OpenStack clouds that seamlessly merge and hybridize through highly intelligent secure networks. These federated clouds enable you to create elastic infrastructures that meet dynamic business needs with speed and agility, increasing the availability and flexibility of the services you deliver to end users while improving operational excellence.

Contrail Cloud Platform differentiates itself by providing:

Freedom of Choice

Avoids expensive vendor lock-in with an open architecture that interoperates with a wide range of compute, storage, and networking hardware, virtualization schemes and cloud applications. You can start anywhere in your network with the ability to grow and evolve over time, with best-of-breed options to future-proof your infrastructure.

Intelligent Automation

Delivers business agility, predictable operational excellence, and total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization through the intelligent automation of resource allocation and scaling, infrastructure configuration, and application life cycle management. It does this by establishing an application provisioning feedback loop in a policy-driven infrastructure powered by data-driven decisions.

Always-On Reliability

Provides high availability, robust security, and elastic scalability to both the platform and cloud applications to deliver always-on reliability that any cloud needs to carry mission-critical business applications and data.

Features

• OpenStack Release Coordination

  Contrail Cloud Platform releases are aligned with OpenStack community releases to maintain API compatibility and strong community support.

• Automated Resource Provisioning

  Automated resource provisioning for configuration and operation of compute, storage, and networking resources needed by cloud applications minimizes manual intervention and improves operational.

• Seamless Inter-Cloud Federation and Compatibility

  Seamless inter-cloud federation and compatibility uses a set of proven networking standards and protocols that make it easy to extend a virtual network across multiple data centers and clouds, enabling workload mobility and workload placement flexibility.

• Anytime Availability

  High availability and scalability to provide anytime availability of the cloud for operation, activation, and management of new and existing workloads.

• Rich Analytics

  Rich and prescriptive analytics provide granular infrastructure telemetry information through very large-scale ingestion and querying of real-time and historical structured and unstructured data to optimize planning and service creation.

• Intelligent Automation

  Contrail Cloud Platform automates resource allocation and scaling, infrastructure configuration, and application lifecycle management using an application provisioning feedback loop that minimizes manual intervention.